indie films

Nightmare on Elm Street documentary comes to DVD

Camelot Entertainment announced today the DVD release of 1428 Films’ Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, which is being billed as the definitive behind-the-scenes retrospective on the twenty-five year history of the horror franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street. ‘Never Sleep Again‘ will be available on DVD tomorrow, May 4th, 2010, following the theatrical ….

Weinsteins close to snatching Miramax back from Disney?

According to THR, the Weinsteins are close to a winning bid in the Miramax auction and could take back operating control of the arthouse studio they founded in 1979, then sold to Disney for $80 million in 1993. Disney’s recently shuttered niche division boasts a 611-title film library. Miramax founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein have ….

Actor James Caan’s Openfilm to award $1 million film financing prize in indie film contest

Online global independent film community Openfilm announced that it will award $1 million to independent filmmakers over the next 20 months. One independent filmmaker will be selected to receive $50,000 in cash and $200,000 in financing every 5 months by the Openfilm community of 20,000 registered film enthusiasts, along with some of the world’s preeminent ….

Indie filmmakers continue to find a voice during upcoming 32nd Annual Independent Film Week

Independent Film Week is the oldest and largest forum in the U.S. for the discovery of new projects in development and new voices on the independent film scene. The Project Forum is a meetings-driven forum connecting filmmakers who have new narrative and documentary projects with key industry executives interested in identifying projects with which to ….

Win one of three copies of Plunder: The Crime of Our Time on DVD

Tomorrow, April 13th, The Disinformation Company will release the gritty thriller Plunder: The Crime of Our Time, which is unfortunately ripped from today’s headlines. With mind-numbing phrases such as “collateralized debt obligation” and “credit default swaps” still in the headlines – along with exorbitant Wall Street bonuses and Michael Lewis’ latest book, The Big Short: ….